Joe Holley's Hurricane Season, about the Houston Astros' 2017 season, is out May 2018

Joe Holley's Hurricane Season, about the Houston Astros' 2017 season, is out May 2018

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Joe Holley

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Joe Holley pens book about Astros' historic season

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About a month into the 2018 Major League Baseball season local fans will have an opportunity to relive the Houston Astros' 2017 World Series run with a new book by Chronicle columnist Joe Holley.

Holley's "Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City" publishes May 1 via Hachette Books. The book covers the Astros' championship year with an emphasis on the team's postseason run that saw them knock off the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees to win the American League pennant, setting up a World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Astros' win in the seven-game series gave the franchise its first ever world series.

And true to its title, Holley's book will also set the team's run against the backdrop of a city recovering from a deluge. "The Astros' first-ever World Series victory is a great baseball story, but it's also the story of a major American city -- a city (and a state) that the rest of the nation doesn't always love or understand -- becoming a sentimental favorite because of its grace and good will in response to the largest natural disaster in American history," reads Hachette's description.

Holley joined the Chronicle in 2009. An archive of his Native Texas columns can be found here.